According to The Times, the Chinese Embassy in Britain is trying to prevent Channel Four from broadcasting a documentary about child trafficking in China. From The Times: The programme makers filmed undercover in China, speaking to parents who had had a child stolen or had sold a child, and to traffickers. More boys are taken […]
Read MoreWhile Hunan Province has raised fines for violating the one-child policy, officials in Shaanxi have taken a new approach to getting the wealthy to obey the law. From China Daily: “Financial punishment does little to deter certain celebrities and wealthy people, because they can afford to pay any fine,” Feng said. “However, what these people […]
Read MoreOct. 1, 2007, marked the 58th National Day of the People’s Republic of China. Three days ago, one of China’s three annual Golden Weeks began and people crowded railway stations for a variety of reasons –...
Read MoreFrom openDemocracy: The five-yearly national congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) takes place on 15-19 October 2007, the seventeenth such event in the party’s history. Anyone who is interested in Chinese politics is paying close attention to the preparations. The most suspenseful aspect of the build-up is speculation over who will be on the […]
Read MoreOn China Rises blog, Tim Johnson has a follow-up to his story about the relocation of Tibetan herders (for which he received a scolding from the Foreign Ministry): My earlier story said Tibet had relocated up to 10 percent of its population, around 250,000 herdsmen, into “socialist villages,” in a move to improve their living […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A group of US and Chinese business people on Wednesday unveiled the first US financial services firm to be co-owned by Chinese interests. HuaMei Capital Company , as the joint venture firm is known, will be based in Chicago and Beijing, highlighting the growing links between Chinese business and the US Midwest. […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing.com.cn: The People’s Bank of China and the China Banking Regulatory Commission have announced plans to impose new real estate lending and credit policies aimed at quelling speculation through mortgage controls. Investors reacted to the announcement September 27 by pushing the Shanghai real estate compound index down nearly 4 percent to 303.25 points. At […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A Chinese court has ordered France’s Schneider Electric to pay a Chinese company $45m in damages for infringing its patent, the largest amount ever awarded in an intellectual property case in the country. Intellectual property violations are one of the main sources of friction between China and the rest of the world, […]
Read MoreFrom RFA Unplugged blog: This rather shaky video was taken on Danxian Road, and appears to show the authorities removing banners attached to the roof of the apartment building. More than 200 residents of an apartment block in the eastern coastal city of Qingdao have begun a protest after being ordered to vacate their homes, […]
Read MoreFrom Thomas Crampton – Media and Technology blog: One joy of moving to a new country is seeing the different customs that prevail. One of my favorites in China is seeing men carrying their wife or girlfriend’s handbag, often the latest fru-fru LVMH knock-off.
Read MoreNASA has all but admitted defeat in the space race. From AP: “I personally believe that China will be back on the moon before we are,” NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a low-key lecture in Washington two weeks ago, marking the space agency’s 50th anniversary, still a year away. “I think when that happens, […]
Read MoreAsia Times looks at India’s widening trade deficit with China: On the surface then, there appears to be plenty of evidence for optimists who hold that Bangalore and Shanghai, rather than New Delhi and Beijing, are the new determinants of the topography of bilateral ties; ties that are increasingly characterized by commerce rather than conflict. […]
Read MoreFrom National Interest: China, China, China. It started with North Korea. It soon spread to Darfur. Now we need China for Burma. The Congo will probably be next. China has become the newest dues ex machina of international politics. In daytime it consorts with the forces of evil. At night, after pleadings from the world, […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The severe tropical storm Lekima was upgraded to typhoon Tuesday afternoon and is moving closer towards South China’s island province of Hainan, where 100,000 people have been evacuated, local authorities said. Lekima, named after a fruit in Vietnam, was located at 17.7 degrees north latitude and 110.4 degrees east longitude at 6:00 […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China may prevent foreign investors from taking control of domestic brokerages, a setback to Wall Street’s ambitions to tap the world’s fastest-growing stock market, people familiar with the planned rules said. Overseas companies will be limited to owning stakes in publicly traded brokerages, with the foreign holding capped at 20 percent, said the […]
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